10:30 PM |
Your biggest challenge isn't someone else.
It's the ache in your lungs, the burning static in your head,
and the voice inside of you that screams "can't!"
...But you don't listen.
You push harder.
You hear the voice whisper "can";
and you discover that the person you thought you were
is no match for the one you really are.
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Two and a half hours of nonstop rowing,
but it seemed like an eternity--
---an endless expanse of growling waters and the sound of their breathing and the burning in my arms,
and all the while that voice was screaming "CAN'T!" and it screamed until it was hoarse, and until it could barely scream any longer;
but then another voice called through the blur--
"Come on; don't give up;
I'm with you, with you all the way."
and I told the voice of Doubt-- "...Well, to hell with the pain."
and we rowed.
For me.
For you.
For us.
For them.
I feel numb. :/
Not to be confused with emo, kthx.
(and we are screaming you can trust us;)